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LOCK STOCK AND BARREL MOVIE
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My favorite characters are Rory Breaker (Vas Blackwood) and Big Chris (Vinnie Jones) mainly because their two dimensional over-the-top characters are the most obvious.

LOCK STOCK AND BARREL MOVIE

If you are expecting a 'belly laugh Leslie Nielson, Jim Carrey, Steve Martin, typecasted' type all out comedy, or a serious 'Al Pacino, Andy Garcia, DeNiro typecasted crime thriller, you will find this movie a big let down. I think that it is for this reason that a few people are really disappointed with LS&2SB. No one is really trying to be extraordinarily funny, but again it is the balance between being menacingly serious and funny that the humor really flies at you. The humor is incredibly sharp yet 'as a matter of fact'. Something is always happening but unlike music videos, not without reason. Like music videos, it is all non-stop movement and sound. The best description I can think of is 'MTV does a crime comedy', and I honestly don't think there is anything wrong with that. Quite a few people say that the style is a mix of 'Pulp Fiction', 'Goodfellas', 'Trainspotting' and 'Reservoir Dogs', but I think that you would make that kind of description only if you are really desperate to match LS&2SB to something. I cannot think of any movie that can be compared to LS&2SB.

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The style of this movie is unique, full stop. Maybe it could be called a satire on true life. They are all projected as 'cool' yet the situation is always out of their control. The villains are menacing, and yet they are made to look like idiots, and the good guys think they are so smart yet keep getting the rug pulled from under them. I suppose the most obvious feature of this movie is that it is beautifully balanced between being serious and humorous at the same time. I have lost count of the number of times I have seen LS&2SB and still cannot put my finger on why I find this movie so good to watch. To begin with my wife got pretty annoyed because any other movie we rented would be ejected after about 20 minutes of viewing and in would go LS&2SB. But despite this I became literally addicted to it. The first time I saw this movie I had difficulty in understanding a lot of the dialogue not just because of the weird accent, but because the actors spoke so damn fast.

three outtakes are shown during the credits: one with Soap telling a joke, the next where Barry asks one of the scouser's for an ice cream and one where a guy runs onto the set.

just before the credits, you see Soap telling a whole joke in the car when they are coming back from the job.

when Ed is being interviewed by the police you see him finishing explaining the rules of 3 Card Brag to them (as seen at very start).

when Big Chris is walking into Harry's office near the end, he meets the man who was on the sunbed near the start of the film.

when Barry is talking to the two scousers the dialogue is different.

Alan explains to Ed the "history" between JD and Harry.

the earlier stages of the card game are shown.

Tom, Soap and Bacon are shown walking through the pub to the bar while Ed is playing cards.

the scene where Big Chris goes to see the man on the sunbed is longer.at the very start of film, Ed is shown explaining the rules of 3 Card Brag to two people.